The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began
Valerie Hansen will take us back to the year 1000 and discuss how globalization began. For the first time in world history an object or a message could travel all the way around the world.
From Moneylending to Hell
Moneylending was serious business in the Middle Ages. You could be risking your very soul! Lucie Laumonier talks with Sama Mammadova, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, who studies the history of usury and moneylending in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Italy. How did moneylenders reconcile their business with the fear of sin?
Could a pandemic destroy an economy? Iran and the Black Death
A look back at the Black Death reveals how even regions that were not hard-hit by the plague would find themselves suffering other repercussions.